Good Girl Complex Quotes

“Fuck love. Build the empire.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“People spend their whole lives complaining about things they’re unwilling to change. At a certain point, either pluck up the courage or shut up.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“I should have to suffer for how I hurt you. I fucking am suffering. But I'm begging you to put me out of my misery.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Time to wipe up my smudged mascara and be a bad bitch. Fuck love. Build the empire.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“I’m not afraid of commitment, if that’s what you’re suggesting.” “Uh-huh,” she says. “I’ll commit the shit out of you.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Tattoos. Tall, dark, and damaged. The more emotionally unavailable, the better.” She beams. “If he’s got a juvenile rap sheet and motorcycle, I’m open for business.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Yeah, I did. And I’m the one who threw her at you. I guess I’m not allowed to be jealous.” Mac growls softly. “But I fucking am.” “Welcome to the club,” I growl back. “The thought of anyone but me putting their hands on you makes me homicidal.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Cooper: "If you two are done, can we get this damn tree finished?"
Mac: "Keep that attitude up and you're not getting your present tonight?"
Evan: "Please. Baby Potato Jesus can hear you.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Cooper: "I might just be falling in love with you, Cabot."
My heart jumps.
Mac: "Uh-oh."
Cooper: "You have no idea.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Those two strikes you listed might be strikes in your other world, but here, you and me, we’re exactly who and what we need to be.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Mac: "I shudder to think what's rattling around in your spank bank."
Cooper: "If you're trying to get me into bed, you can just ask.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Mac: "I happen to love flowers. Especially on clothes. The flashier, the better."
Cooper rolls his eyes as if he knows I'm lying through my teeth.
Cooper: "You know, you don't have to work this hard. I'm pretty easy."
Mac: "I'm sorry, what? Who's working too hard? You've been blowing up my phone talking about scone porn."
Cooper: "You're kinky."
he says, shrugging
Cooper: "I get it. It's not my thing, but whatever gets you off.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“But we were never in love. I mistook boredom for comfort and comfort for romance. Because I didn’t know what true passion was. I didn’t know what I was missing, how it’s supposed to feel when you can’t contain yourself, when desire for another person consumes you so completely, when your appreciation and affection for them is total and unconditional.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“When’s the last time you touched yourself thinking about him?”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Maybe we never got the family we deserved, but we ended up with the one we needed.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Afraid no matter what I do, I'm fighting against the current and I'll end up up dead or a deadbeat”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“- You're right, I don't get it. I just spent the past couple hours watching you seek out every wild ride at that festival. You get off in the thrill. You get off on life. There's fire in you, Mac.
- Fire - she echoes dubiously.
- Hell yes. Fire. And you choose to be with someone who puts out the fire? Screw that. You need a man to stoke it.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“The last thing I want is a doormat.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“For the first time since we hatched this plan, I’m starting to wonder if I’m in over my head.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Mac: "Wait. I don't get it. If there are boats coming to the island, why can't I get on one and sail home to safety?"
Tate: "Because that's not the point!"
Tate's blue eyes convey pure exasperation.
Mac: "Btu I've essentially been rescued. So why can't I get on a boat? I'd way rather do that than pick between Cooper and a bunch of supplies without having access to either boat."
Tate: "But that's the actual dilemma! Not how you're going to get off the island. You have to choose."
Mac: "I choose the boats!”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Evan: "Aww, come here you little shit.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Steph: "What would I tell Cooper if you got electrocuted up there?"
Alana: "Yeah, no. We would've had to hide the body and tell Cooper you skipped own."
When I raise an eyebrow at her, she shrugs, grinning blithely.
Alana: "What? You haven't seen Cooper's temper. It's self-preservation at that point.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Cooper: "You could've been killed. In case you hadn't noticed, we're practically in the middle of a hurricane."
My jaw drops.
Mac: "Are you kidding me right now? In case I hadn't noticed? And now you're suddenly worried about my safety? You're the one who left me at your house in the middle of a hurricane. I was all alone there! Just me and Patricia screaming like a banshee!"
He blinks at me as if I'm insane.
Cooper: "Her name is Daisy."
I stumble to my feet, clutching the blanket around myself like a toga.
Mac: "I'm not talking about the dog! I'm talking about Patricia!"
Cooper: "I don't know who Patricia is, you lunatic!"
Mac: "The little dead girl who drowned outside your house a hundred years ago and -"
I stop, my outraged gaze swinging toward Evan, whose lips are twitching wildly.
Mac: "You asshole! Seriously?"
Evan crosses his arms across his chest.
Evan: "Mackenzie. Sweetheart. I'm not going to apologize for you being gullible. This one's on you.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Living without joy”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“There’s no good reason Mac and I should work. I can’t give him one. And hell”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“You’re right”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“I don’t understand the point of cheating. If you want to be with other people, be single. Don’t drag someone else along for the ride.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“We're all screwed up, one way or another”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Because while the truth hurts you, the lie degrades you.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex

“Growing up the way I did, I learned a long time ago that everything is temporary.”
― Elle Kennedy, Good Girl Complex